[DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in Chch?

Richard Vowles richard at developers-inc.co.nz
Thu Oct 15 00:02:23 NZDT 2009


2009/10/14 Jolyon Smith <jsmith at deltics.co.nz>

>   Ø  Its a less certain thing as its still the future, but its my guess
> likely in 5 years netbooks/laptops and mobile and phone OS will largely kill
> desktop PCs and in time likely Windows too, as there is not much sign they
> will be the leading candidate for mobile devices in 5 years.  Hence the more
> cross platform and new UI (read touchscreen) enabled a language is the
> better positioned it will be.
>
>
>
> I am confident that touchscreen is a fad as far as desktop PCs or even
> notebooks are concerned.  Why am I so confident?
>
>
>
> Because it’s simply *not new* - if it were going to go “mainstream” it
> could have and would have done so *years* ago.
>

Seen this? http://www.10gui.com/

If this were here today, I would have it right now. It does re-iterate your
point, they think multi-touch/touch on the screen will fail in general use.

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